Ironing-board



G. PEAREL. Ironing-Board.

No. 226,543. Patented April 13,1880.

N FEIERSI PNDTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGmN D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. PEAREL, OF MOOSIO, PENNSYLVANIA.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,543, dated April 13, 1880.

Application filed October 7,1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. PEAREL, of Moosic, Lackawanna county, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements relating to Ironing- Boards, of which the following is a specification.

I attach my board to the wall of the apartment for use, and remove it and stow it in any convenient place when not required. I have devised and applied means for attaching and supporting the board with great fir1nness,while the detaching and stowage may be rapid and complete.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1. is a side view of the device in use with a portion of the wall and floor of the room. Fig. 2 is an end view of the principal parts separated from the wall. The remaining figures are on a larger scale. face view of a part permanently attached to the wall, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the portion of the table immediately adjacent thereto.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

A is a screw firmly set in the wall A of the apartment. A is a metal plate firmly set against the wall, surrounding the screw A, and presenting a horizontal flange or narrow shelf, A at its lower edge. The screw A stands with its threaded end outward or extending into the room.

B is an ironing-board, of hard wood or other suitable material, and wrought in any desired form-for ordinary uses, long and narrow with rounded end and edges. The end which abuts against the wall should be squared and of tolerable width. That end is firmly embraced between two flanges, 0 c of a metal plate, 0,

Fig. 3 is a,

which latter extends upward at right angles to the board B, and is provided with an open slot, 0, adapted to receive the screw A.

A thumb-nut, D, threaded on the screw A, provides means for firmly holding the plate 0, and consequently this end of theironing-board, when required, with its base firmly resting on the flange or shelf A The other end of the board B, which is usually narrower, extends horizontally out into the room. It is braced by a hinged arm or brace, E, whichis hinged to the board B at c, and when in use may be set against the wall A at the required height to hold the board stiffiy.

To set the board in order for work, it is necessary simply to turn the nut, if notalready turned, till it is sufficiently out from the wall, apply the board, with its plate 0 c 0 attached, by thrusting it upward from below, so thatits slot shall receive the screw A, then depress that end of the board until it rests fairly on the shelf A and then hold it there and turn the nut till it tightens. Then adjust the hinged brace E till it strains upward somewhat on the board and holds firmly against the wall A.

To detach the board these operations are reversed, and on liberating the board the brace E may lie against the board as it is stowed away.

Modifications may be made. In case the brace E is too short it may be set against the floor instead of the wall.

I claim as my invention- The shelf A fixed on the wall, in combination with the board B, plate 0 c, screw A, not I), and brace E, as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of September, 1879, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. PEAREL.

Witnesses:

E. T. BLAoKMAN, GEORGE G. 000m. 

